Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized as a pioneer in bio art, 3D animation and robotic interactive art installations. These installations develop hybrid ecologies with humans, machines, plants, animals, and more than human others by constructing idealized social, biological, and machine symbionts. Film, video and 3D animation are essential means by which Rinaldo explores ways of developing and supporting these conceptual concerns. 

His work interrogates fuzzy boundaries and posits that as new machinic & algorithmic species arise, we need to understand the complex constructive and destructive ecologies that a semi-living species may shape. Trans-species communication enhanced by machine learning will empower animal agency, insect, bacterial, and emergent machine intelligence while expanding understanding of more than human others. 
Rinaldo’s works have traveled to 35 countries, receiving an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica, First prize at Vida 3.0 for Autopoiesis, First Prize for his Video Opera for Dying Insects at the Great Plains Nature Center Video competition, A United Nations Green Leaf Award, and commissions from Nuit Blanche, Vancouver Olympics, and Te Papa and Kiasma Museums.